Moonstone Cañon, coldly beautiful, echoed the hoof-beats of the ponies as they walked homeward.
Brand Williams, thundering down at the head of the Moonstone riders, threw a level shot that cut through Parks, who wavered, but managed to wheel his horse and fire at Overland Red.
Ringed round their little fire in the meadow sat or lay the Moonstone riders.
The little group, happy, talkative, pledged each other and theMoonstone Ranch generously.
The Moonstone boys wheeled their ponies and rode toward him.
And did you hear about his last get-away on one of the Moonstone Rancho ponies?
It would go bad with Saunders if the Moonstoneboys ever heard of this.
Again, the foreman of the Moonstone Ranch seldom calls him anything more dignified than "Red.
The news it contained set Collie to thinking seriously of leaving the Moonstone Rancho and joining his old companion in this new venture of gold-digging which, as Overland took pains to explain, was "paying big.
At the camp he prepared to make his trip to the Moonstone Ranch.
A little breeze, wayfaring through Moonstone Cañon and on up to the mountain ranch, touched the girl's cheek and she breathed deeply of its cool fragrance.
For he still could not focus directly upon the shining whiteness of her, and nothing save those moonstone eyes were clear to him.
In the instant that she gripped him with that fixed, moonstone look he felt oddly as if a tangible bond were taut between them.
And he was free again with that clouding of the moonstone surfaces.
From the hood of it she watched Smith coming toward her, a smile on her pale mouth and a light blazing in the deeps of her moonstone eyes.
On the fallen tree trunk, with the sahib's moonstone glittering on its forefinger, was the small hand of a woman that had been lopped off above the wrist, and which still dripped blood.
For five minutes the unruffled pool mirrored the moon in placid silence; it lay beneath them like some jewel, a moonstone on a deep green cloth.
My dear boy, you could no more shed yourself than you could that desire for a fancy vest and the moonstone pin that you wore in a deviltry of revolt against the idea that moonstones were unlucky.
He was himself satisfied that theMoonstone had been pledged to Mr. Luker.
If the jugglers were innocent, who, in the name of wonder, had taken the Moonstone out of Miss Rachel's drawer?
Was the legacy of the Moonstone a proof that she had treated her brother with cruel injustice?
He was sent to the bank to pay money to his master's account--and he knows no more of the Moonstone than the babe unborn.
A cheque, which dropped out when I opened it, informed me (before I had mastered the contents) that Sergeant Cuff's dismissal from the inquiry after the Moonstone was now a settled thing.
She spoke with a bitterness of tone which satisfied me that the scandal of the Moonstone had been in some way recalled to her mind.
Or would she go a step further, and delude us into believing that the Moonstone was stolen?
Is the Moonstone at the bottom of all the mischief--or is it not?
If her debts press, and she decides on sending it away, then we have our man ready, and we meet theMoonstone on its arrival in London.
In a year from the time when the Moonstone was pledged, the Indians will be on the watch for their third chance.
VI Seen from a balloon, Moonstone would have looked like a Noah's ark town set out in the sand and lightly shaded by gray-green tamarisks and cottonwoods.
She was going back toMoonstone for her summer vacation, and she was sitting up all night in a day-coach because that seemed such an easy way to save money.
Older than Moonstone or the sovereign State of Colorado.
Every mile of his run, from Moonstone to Denver, was painted with the colors of that hope.
Moonstone people always speak of him and Thea together, as examples of Moonstone enterprise.
He could still speak enough Swedish to exhort and to bury the members of his country church out at Copper Hole, and he wielded in his Moonstone pulpit a somewhat pompous English vocabulary he had learned out of books at college.
If you chanced to be passing down that Moonstone street and saw that alert white figure rocking there behind the screen of roses and lingering late into the night, you might feel sorry for her, and how mistaken you would be!
It was the custom for each of the different Sunday Schools in Moonstone to give a concert on Christmas Eve.
The Moonstone gossips, assembled in Mrs. Smiley's millinery and notion store, often discussed Dr.
He leftMoonstone one bright October morning, without telling any one good-bye.
This time, when Thea left Moonstone to go back to Chicago, she went alone.
Thea and her father went back to Moonstone on the one-o'clock passenger.
After all, she was a Moonstone girl, one of the preacher's children.
He gave up his practice and left Moonstone for good.
When my eyes unclosed the chamber of the moonstone walls was filled with a silvery, crepuscular light.
The walls of this hall were of the same moonstone substance that had enclosed the chamber upon whose inner threshold we were.
This reminded him of the moonstone pendant and he wondered for the fiftieth time where it could be.
Le Glorieux sprang at once to pick it up, exclaiming as he did so, "Why, Cousin Clotilde, it is your moonstone pendant!
You have my moonstone in your possession and you must restore it to me at once.
Frantically she picked them up one by one and shook them, but no moonstone was there!
All I ask is my moonstone pendant, your Highness," said the Lady Clotilde.
Le Glorieux," said Philibert, "I do not believe that the maid stole the moonstone any more than that I took it myself.
Of all her trinkets, and she had many and valuable ones, none so charmed the fool as the moonstone pendant.
The particular feldspar that furnishes most of the moonstone is orthoclase, a silicate of potassium and aluminum.
This name is unfortunately chosen as the material is not the same as that of true moonstone and the effect is not so pronounced or so beautiful.
But oft the idle fisher Sits on the shadowy bank, And his dreams make marvellous pictures Where the wizard's moonstone sank.
For the mighty master Agrippa Wrought it with spell and rhyme From a fragment of mystic moonstone In the tower of Nettesheim.
Like most of the more or less opaque gems, moonstone is cut chiefly in the rounded form known as en cabochon.
The gems known as moonstone and sunstone owe the play of colors which gives them their respective names to similar causes.
The moonstone of commerce comes chiefly from Ceylon, where it occurs in large pieces the size of a fist in a clay resulting from the decomposition of a porphyritic rock.
Another species of Feldspar used asmoonstone is albite.
The brilliancy of moonstone is considerably increased by mounting it against black.
Both sunstone and moonstone can be accurately imitated in glass and the distinction of the artificial from the real by ocular examination alone would be almost impossible.
On the night before the election then, young Rabbich gave a dinner at the Moonstone to some twenty youths of his own age, and Grantly Ffolliot was of the party.
Hats are gettin' worse every day," she said with a pleasant smile as she jabbed two immense pins with imitation moonstone tops into the stuffing of the cushions behind her.
The memory of the nodding plumes and the moonstone hat-pins evoked a smile as she turned away from the mirror.
She locked up the coral necklace and the moonstone brooch in a drawer by themselves--Edith's drawer she instantly christened it--said her prayers with an overflowing heart and went to bed.
Your theory is that Franklin Blake hid the Moonstone in his room.
You must put it where you put the Moonstone last year.
My theory is that the Moonstone is in the possession of Mr. Luker's bankers in London.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moonstone" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: diamond; emerald; jade; ruby; sapphire; stone; transparency
